I once installed Avast software (anti malware, cleanup, security). Several corresponding programs were installed. Due to continuously asking to install the full program suite, I decided to uninstall the Avast software. Stupid move of Avast, because their free program never asked to install the full Avast suite.
Uninstall Avast using a removal tool App Cleaner & Uninsatller App Cleaner & Uninstaller is a special utility, that allows you to uninstall applications on a Mac completely and safely. With this Avast uninstaller, you can remove the software with just several clicks: Launch App Cleaner & Uninstaller. Uninstall Utility Uninstall our software using avastclear Sometimes it's not possible to uninstall Avast the standard way - using the ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS in control panel. In this case, you can use our uninstallation utility avastclear. Yes, as above, just deleting the folder isn't a clean uninstall option and generally causes issue with the uninstaller. In some cases with AV in particular you have to install and uninstaller, but. It you open the task manager while the uninstall is stuck, you'll see something like 'avast remediation'. End that process and it seems to allow the Uninstaller to advance. In my case the process respawned, but after killing it a second time, the uninstall completed successfully.
So I used their Avast Uninstall.app to remove the programs.
After a restart there was a leftover: 'Avast Cleanup'.
This app is a daemon process and it is not possible to trash it, because MacOs reports that it is 'open'.
You can show that it is running in the Activity Monitor. And a force quit does not work.
Command-Option-Escape shows the current apps and 'Avast Cleanup' is not displayed. So 'Avast Cleanup' cannot be closed or quit.
The only way to get rid of undeletable apps is to use Terminal and use a couple of shell commands.
The shell commands find and delete the directories and their contents.
Be very carefull, because you have to use root permission to execute them!
Any executed mistype results in a corrupt OS!
Unexperienced shell users should study shell commands.
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Find the directories with the application software and data to delete:
sudo will ask for the administrator password of the Mac.
sudo find / -iname '*Avast*' -print | grep -v denied
This command shows all the directories in which Avast software resides.
On my Mac the leftover Avast Cleanup resides in the directory /Applications/AvastCleanup.app
This directory contains sub-directories that has to be deleted also.
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The command rm to delete the application software and data:
sudo rm -rf /Applications/AvastCleanup.app/
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The -rf keys: -r 'recursive' -f 'force' (suppress confirmation messages)
After a restart, there is no trace of 'Avast Cleanup' and is not started anymore. Extra data for wwe 2k.
sudo launchctl list|grep Avast
This procedure is usefull for any undeletable program. But always do a 'find', as described above, first!
Message was edited by: Paulus_2
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